Full Transcript for The People Have Spoken!

of who they have to stand next to. And I was thinking about the Haley Stevens incident and I'm like, man, What does that mean now? Like, all this flipping and back and forth. 00:02:41 Speaker 2: What happens? 00:02:42 Speaker 5: Well, I think we saw that in Georgia a few cycles, it was the last cycle, when they ran Hershel Walker. Of all people, Raphael Warnock was running. 00:02:49 Speaker 1: He's black. 00:02:50 Speaker 5: They said, let's have a black guy from Texas, a football player who has no connection really to Georgia, except he played. 00:02:55 Speaker 3: Football there decades ago. 00:02:56 Speaker 5: Let's make him a candidate, even though he couldn't finish a sentence. 00:02:59 Speaker 6: Man, this was crazy. I was in Atlanta for that. 00:03:03 Speaker 3: I watched it. 00:03:03 Speaker 1: You were there. 00:03:05 Speaker 3: And this is how they see us. 00:03:06 Speaker 5: They think you just put any old black person up there, we're going to vote for them, right? 00:03:11 Speaker 6: That's about the wildest... race I ever seen in my life. So you got a commercial, Hershey Walker vote for me, and the next one is his ex-wife. 00:03:21 Speaker 3: He put the pistol in my mouth. 00:03:24 Speaker 6: He just, I mean, this thing was like, we ain't never seen nothing like that in New York. 00:03:29 Speaker 3: That race there was great. I didn't understand it. I was like, yo, how is this guy? No, this is crazy. 00:03:37 Speaker 5: But I want to draw the comparison to you again, Andrew, because I keep talking about Florida, to what happened in Georgia with Herschel Walker, to what happened tonight with Brian Byron Donalds, because I feel like this is another situation. Byron Donalds is not Herschel Walker by any stretch. But Byron Donalds is a man who has a criminal record. Nothing against him, but he voted against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. 00:03:56 Speaker 3: So he's somebody who. 00:03:57 Speaker 7: With a fake Jamaican accent. 00:03:59 Speaker 3: Exactly. 00:04:00 Speaker 5: And he divorced his black wife and married a white woman and never paid back the money he owed to the black wife. 00:04:05 Speaker 2: I got it. 00:04:05 Speaker 3: That's another story. But Byron Donald is. 00:04:08 Speaker 1: I love your addition of footnotes. 00:04:10 Speaker 3: Footnote one, two, three, four, five. That's the story. 00:04:15 Speaker 5: But I'm interested in the Byron Donaldson, because I don't know what you're seeing there. But I want to know what the black vote turnout is for Byron Donaldson. He was shooting for 20 percent, north of 20 percent of the black vote in order to win. And maybe some people at our desk over here can give us some answers. But I want to know how well he performed and how Angie Nixon performed in comparison in that state. 00:04:35 Speaker 3: To get a sense of whether their black strategy, their black vote strategy is working at all. Because they're not trying to win the black vote. 00:04:41 Speaker 5: They're just

trying to get a few people in the black community not to vote, which is what they were doing when Mike Rogers showed up with Haley Stevens. 00:04:47 Speaker 4: Now, the reason why I was sitting and I was thinking about, you know, just how grateful I was, or I am currently about a lot of things, about the things that I've been through in life, things that I've experienced, the way that I was raised, is because what I was thinking about yesterday is, You know, there are so many things as a human on this earth. Let's take race, color, religion, all that stuff out of it. As a human, every single day, getting up, going out to work, building life for myself, period. Every single day. There are so many different things that you come up against. And I think, especially in 2026, where. 00:05:30 Speaker 2: It's now imploded, right? 00:05:31 Speaker 4: Where it's not even just like the big major things that you may come up against. It's like little small things, literally like being able to afford public transportation to get back and forth to work. And that becoming such a normal thing for people. Like these things that people are experiencing and that we are experiencing right now are not normal daily. These should not be normal daily struggles. They are, but they should not be normal daily struggles. When you live in a place that is generating so much money for things that they choose to And people are working two, three, four jobs and, you know, double overtimes, 40, 60 hours a week. 00:06:06 Speaker 2: But it's here. 00:06:07 Speaker 4: And I remember when I was younger, my grandmother always telling me, you got to save for a rainy day. 00:06:12 Speaker 2: Times are going to get hard. 00:06:15 Speaker 4: And forever, I always thought that the things that she was saying to me and the way she was talking to me, the things that she did to put in place certain things for me, my mom as well, too. I'm like, that's just, you know, a mother's love or grandmother's love. now I'm in I'm literally in it and I'm seeing how people are so mentally messed up by the world that they're coming up in and I don't want to seem all out and down and downtrodden but like I'm being honest like I mean you got you got younger kids who are going up in a world where that we had the internet don't get me wrong but we was outside too we socialized we we learned how to deal with people to people interaction, people not liking us, emotions, people loving us one day, not liking us the next. And it's still difficult for us with the internet. But the, you know, younger children are not experiencing that full global spectrum of all of that, right? So you got people that don't know how to deal with their emotions and regulate their emotions and they're acting off of that. You have the daily day stressors, the day-to-day stressors of the world already, just as a human getting up and just going through your day. And then on top of that, you have these things that have become normal and Like,

you know, am I going to be able to get my medicine? If I'm a caretaker, yo, like, am I going to be able to get my mom to the appointments she needs to get to? Yo, yesterday, literally yesterday, what made me make this video was I had to cancel my mom's, well, they was going to be canceled anyway, my mom's scans. She does her follow-up scans for cancer. She's a stage four lung and brain cancer survivor. And for the last four times we've booked these scans, we've had to Cancel it. Sometimes she's literally been right in the doctor's office and we've had to cancel it and reschedule it because authorizations aren't, you know, going through right away. And things are just so weird with Medicaid and Medicare. And if you depend on the state at all for any type of anything, when it comes to health care, it's really bad out here. So you have things like that where it's like, yo, am I going to be able to make sure she's good while also making sure I'm good? 00:08:18 Speaker 2: Like these things are driving people crazy. 00:08:21 Speaker 4: And I had to just stop for a minute in the midst of all that and be like, I was raised in so much love that with all of this going on, I still literally am like, okay, but there's a tomorrow. 00:08:34 Speaker 2: Okay, but there's another generation coming. 00:08:37 Speaker 4: Okay, I might not understand that, but there's someone smarter than me who does. Okay, but you figured that out last time, Lauren. You can figure it out overly this time. And that is a mindset thing. And that's like a cloth. 00:08:50 Speaker 2: That's like a It's like in you, not on you. And I am just oh, my God. 00:08:55 Speaker 4: I was thinking, God, so much yesterday for the people that I come from, not even just my mother, my grandma, but family in general. I mean, the tribe of friends and stuff like that that I have around me as well, too. I was just so thankful because I'm like, man, there's so much that we could be clinging to right now that is not good, that is not the best. I thank God for the feeling of like home and community in all of this. And I got a chance to feel that even more last night because we went and hung out with Angela Rye. Angela Rye has the Native Land podcast with Andrew Gillum and Bakari Sellers. It's on the Black Effect Podcast Network as well. They're our cousins. But also joining us was Fat Joe. We had Keith Boinking, the legendary Ed Gordon. Shout out to Garrison Hayes. There was another gentleman with him. And he's not listed on this flyer, so I don't have his name. But they held it down on the results side of things. So they were giving us in real time updates from the AP about the races and who was winning in which race. locations and You also had Janay Nelson that joined us. We also I mean, there's there's other people that are missing as well, too. But let me tell you, watching the election last night live while also broadcasting and talking about it. 00:10:15 Speaker 2: I am tired. But oh, wow. 00:10:18 Speaker 4: It felt so good to be with your people while getting all this good news. 00:10:23 Speaker 2: Let's get into the good news. Let's get into the latest. Well, y'all, Donald. 00:10:28 Speaker 4: Trump been screaming at the top of his lungs beside Nicki Minaj and tons of others. Floyd Mayweather, Mike Tyson, tons of other people to act like. 00:10:38 Speaker 2: He was on the ballot in the midterms. 00:10:40 Speaker 4: And, baby, that is exactly what the people did because they went out there and they voted completely against him. People are so tired of the things that we're experiencing under the Trump administration. And. I, you know, I opened this with talking about how I feel so personally connected to Lord, if this don't change, I don't know what, what my, yo, like what are my next like five years personally and professionally about to be like, right. People felt that on all walks of life. I mean, it wasn't even like a party thing. It wasn't even about whether you were Republican, Democrat, independent, none of that at all. And I mean, we had already been seeing a lot of signs of this leading up to the midterm elections with a lot of Republican states, you know, saying, yo, we don't we don't fool with Trump. Remember all those months ago, it was literally Republicans, very conservative people showing up to town halls and going off about the things that they were experiencing, going off about everything that a lot of people who were speaking out against Trump being reelected was warning people about. But people had to see it for themselves. And they see it. They feel it. And it worked in our favor. The Democrats have captured full control of Congress. So voters delivered a huge, huge, huge pushback against Trump, Trump's agenda. And I think, you know, this is a really, really, really clear message that. 00:12:10 Speaker 2: Politics. 00:12:11 Speaker 4: Are doing a lot for people, but they're not doing what they're supposed to do for people. And there are a lot of people who will. 00:12:16 Speaker 2: Say like, you know, I'm not really like a political person. I don't understand everything. 00:12:20 Speaker 4: I'm not the biggest political pundit at all. Like that is not me, but I understand the basis of the government and what it's supposed to do for people, even on the lowest tier. And as a minority, it's crazy because as a minority, we know what it's like to have this huge system, all these rules and these regulations set up And they work for everybody around. 00:12:44 Speaker 2: You and not you. And you're like, yo, but wait, hold on. What about me over here? 00:12:47 Speaker 1: I'm here. 00:12:48 Speaker 2: This is my America too. 00:12:50 Speaker 4: And now it's not even the minorities, the distant franchise that are feeling it. 00:12:56 Speaker 2: And unfortunately, I'm. 00:12:59 Speaker 4: Hoping this is what it took for people to feel that so change can happen. It's unfortunate that people are literally having to choose between

taking their kid to school and going to work. People are working from home and or just losing their jobs because they can't afford to do both. It's unfortunate that, you know, food pantries are literally, you know, seeing so even more people coming out. People that are working, working people are coming out because even if you're working, you got to pick between what bills you're paying and what food you about to buy. 00:13:29 Speaker 2: And people, people are tired of it. They feel it. 00:13:34 Speaker 4: Now, there was some history that was made last night. with Democrats flipping seven Republican-held seats in Michigan, Maine, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. Now, some of these states, Democrats had, you know, been talking for a very, very long time about trying to flip them. And when I say flip them, I mean turn them blue, make them, you know, Democratic-won states. But there were some places that were barely even on the radar as of, you know, some time ago. So last night, South Carolina was it was a conversation. We were doing Angela Rice live election night coverage and. Early on, when South Carolina looked like, you know, it was doing what it was doing and it was turning blue, Bakari Sellers, who was from the Carolinas, I mean, I'm sitting next to him feeling the emotion. 00:14:31 Speaker 2: He was speechless. I thought he was going to be in tears. Let's take a listen to that. 00:14:35 Speaker 1: Well, Results Desk, who's closing? What we got going on? Keep us going. Keep the momentum riding. 00:14:39 Speaker 9: I will keep it riding with something I think you'll be particularly interested in. 00:14:42 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:14:43 Speaker 1: Go ahead and get to it. Tell the people what happened. 00:14:45 Speaker 3: It appears. 00:14:46 Speaker 9: that the Democrat Andy Andrews in South Carolina will be beating Darlene Graham, which is historic to say the least. It would be the first time we'd have a woman ever in the Senate from South Carolina. So yeah, big news for Democrats. 00:15:05 Speaker 8: As they continue to win. Not only did she win, but she won by, what is that, four points. 00:15:12 Speaker 3: It looks like she's up by four points. 00:15:14 Speaker 8: And the county of Greenville, which you all may not know, is one of the most conservative counties in the entire country. It's the home of Bob Jones University, where they have still banned interracial dating. 00:15:23 Speaker 1: Random side note. 00:15:23 Speaker 3: Wow. 00:15:25 Speaker 1: And she actually won that county. 00:15:27 Speaker 8: And so as I was telling Congressman Clyburn when he was here earlier, it looked like something was happening in South Carolina. Something did happen. Jermaine Johnson ran a great race. He got defeated by four points for governor. But four points in South Carolina running for governor is a hell of a hell of a hell of a race to put on. But this is history on the East Coast tonight. 00:15:47 Speaker 1: Before you go to bed, it does look like. 00:15:49 Speaker 8: Democrats probably teetering around 40, 53, 54 seats as possible. 00:15:54 Speaker 9: Don't don't want I don't want to get ahead of myself here, but it seems some somewhere in that area. 00:15:58 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:15:58 Speaker 4: You know, and he says it there that, you know, that was a that was a big thing. big sign of what the night was probably going to be like. That was early in our election coverage. And that was an early warning sign that it was going to be a real tough night for the Republicans, you know, what was happening with South Carolina. Because this is a state that a lot of Democrats even thought was, like, out of reach when it came to flipping, you know? Like, Democrats have made— 43 percent of midterm voters surveyed by NBC News, an exit poll, who voted, said that one of the reasons that they voted the way that they did was because they wanted to express opposition to Trump, whose job approval rating is lower than that of any president on Election Day in nearly two decades. Fat Joe was on the panel last night with us when we were doing our live election coverage. And you guys can go and watch that in full. It's on The Breakfast Club's YouTube channel. It's on the Revolt News YouTube channel. I'm going to see if they can sync it to the Lauren La Rosa TV YouTube channel, too, if they can collab me in it. But if not, it's on the Breakfast Club YouTube channel. But, you know, speaking of disapproval ratings, right? Fat Joe is somebody who no matter where he's at, whether he's in New York, Miami, L.A., wherever he is, he's touching the people. So having his perspective there as somebody that is on the ground day to day. I mean, he's giving back food with the food pantry. That's something that him and Charlamagne are super dedicated to. But being out with the people and hearing the conversations in real time and seeing the conversations. switch in a loyalty switch in real time he said the streets the streets is dry right now is what he said and everybody was like oh hold on wait fat joe what what are you talking about hold up slow up because you talking about the drug like what what is happening right now but To my surprise, I'm going to be honest with you. 00:17:45 Speaker 2: I know Fat Joe is a voice of the people. Duh. 00:17:50 Speaker 4: I've interviewed him several times. Everything he talks about is very people and experience centered. I did not know he was so... political like he was so focused and again i don't know if he's always been this way or because of the last couple years under this administration you've kind of had to understand politics even on a basic level to prepare yourself for whatever is to come but he was spot on with his take let's take a listen. 00:18:15 Speaker 6: Don't we crack that joke you on the street you're touching the people on the street it's dry. 00:18:20 Speaker 7: What what what does that mean in this context The legal way. 00:18:25

Speaker 3: There's no money in the streets. 00:18:27 Speaker 6: And so the economy's so horrible right now, there is no money on the streets. I had some brothers, I get my haircut from some Dominican brothers, and they was like, we. 00:18:38 Speaker 3: Trump, we Trump, we Trump. 00:18:41 Speaker 6: Now the barbershop is empty because all their customers are scared to get picked up by ICE at the barbershop. 00:18:47 Speaker 3: And so the streets is dry. 00:18:50 Speaker 6: And we know that, because we see how people spend money, how people are able to move. And it's pretty much the toughest time I've seen in my lifetime that I could understand, with the gas being so high, inflation, the economy. 00:19:11 Speaker 3: People are really, really struggling out here. 00:19:13 Speaker 6: They're really, really doing bad out here. 00:19:16 Speaker 3: And it's very serious. 00:19:19 Speaker 6: Out here, and that's part of why we see such a turnout like this, because people are like, yo, we got to turn this around. Now the question I have for the political heads. 00:19:28 Speaker 3: Is, can you turn it around? So say you have a landslide. 00:19:33 Speaker 6: Suppose you have a landslide and every law, everything you propose, Donald Trump says no. 00:19:44 Speaker 3: Now you come two years from now and. 00:19:45 Speaker 6: You mad that you voted for blue because they couldn't get none done. 00:19:50 Speaker 3: Because the man said no. 00:19:52 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:19:54 Speaker 1: I'm curious. 00:19:54 Speaker 7: Has he said political here? 00:19:58 Speaker 5: I just think that that involves managing expectations. Yes, this is a critically important election, and if Democrats win the House and the Senate, there's gonna be a lot of expectations that they do something. And they can pass all the legislation that they want, you're right, but Trump could veto it all. 00:20:16 Speaker 3: Or, you know, Trump doesn't really have any fundamental beliefs. 00:20:18 Speaker 5: He could decide, you know, maybe I'll agree with you on this issue or that issue, piss off some of the Republicans. We don't know exactly how he's going to respond to this. Or he may just say that he doesn't accept the election results at all and claim it's all rigged, and we spend the next two years in that whole debacle. So it's really unclear what happens next. But I think the Democrats still have to at least pass legislation if they control the House and the Senate, and even if it gets vetoed, and at least set up the tea for whoever comes next and say, well, these are all the things that we tried to pass, but we couldn't get past because of your Republican president, and use that as an argument going into 2028. 00:20:50 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:20:51 Speaker 7: Bakari, I'm curious not only about the streets being dry, which is an important point, right? We know that is how things flipped in 24. We were live envy at Howard University, Lauren. Then talking about the many challenges that American people are facing, what do you predict will happen tonight with the United States House, the United States Senate? 00:21:11 Speaker 2: How many governor seats do we pick up? 00:21:13 Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I think that the fascinating thing is a lot of the races that we're going to do extremely well and nobody's really talked about. So John Ossoff, you know, has been kind of taken for granted a little bit. Roy Cooper in North Carolina. That race is going to be called in a minute. And it's fascinating to me. I would love to hear Ed Gordon wherever he went because the students at A & T actually kind of kicked this off. The first day of early voting, the students at North Carolina A & T State University, they actually moved their precinct off the campus and moved it down. And the students actually marched. They led a long march on the first day of early voting. And the fascinating part about this, Ed, is that You know, the sit-in movement, it started February 1st, 1960. And so what we're seeing is that there's a new movement. I just wanted to hear your take because you got a little bit grayer hair than I. But it seems like the black votes that we've seen in Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida are being led by a new generation of millennials and younger. 00:22:06 Speaker 4: Man, the results came down so heavily last night. Even Trump had to run away. And hide himself and try to make it seem like he had nothing to do with this. Talking about he wasn't on the ballot and that's why Republicans lost. So Trump posted to social media, I was on the ballot. And if I was, we would have won in a landslide. But this whole midterm election, every rally has been vote as if Trump is on the ballot. Vote as if Trump is on the ballot. I know Nicki Minaj was pissed. She put on that $ 6, 000, upwards of $ 6, 000, $ 7, 000 Gucci suit, stood out there in that Michigan rally and said this about Trump prior to the midterm voting day. 00:22:44 Speaker 2: Let's take a listen. 00:22:46 Speaker 1: We love Trump. We love Trump. 00:22:50 Speaker 2: We love Trump. 00:22:52 Speaker 3: We love Michigan. 00:22:54 Speaker 2: Make some noise. I said, Michigan, make some noise. 00:23:06 Speaker 10: I am so honored to be working with this president. He represents resilience. You know, so many people were maybe giving up a little bit, a little bit hopeless. And since he's come back, he's changed the energy of our country. And he's given us hope. a future to look forward to, a brighter future for us and our children. So let's make some noise for this great man. I love him so much. And when I say Mike, you say Rogers. 00:23:44 Speaker 1: Mike! Mike! 00:23:47 Speaker 10: When I say John, you say James. 00:23:51 Speaker 7: John! James! 00:23:55 Speaker 10: Michigan, God bless you We really need all of these great people to be elected because this is a major turning point for our country. And when you're in major states like Michigan, we need this to be a leader in the movement

that's happening right now. We need this place to lead in the movement, right? And we're not going to give up because we want our children... to grow up in a place where we can be proud of. We don't want our children to be bombarded with sex changes, right? We don't want that for our children. We want people to leave the children alone, leave them out of it, right? So, President Trump, it is an honor to stand with you every single time, and I will continue to support you forever and ever. If you run again, I will support you again. 00:24:53 Speaker 4: All of that to lose being on the wrong side of history is not going to fare well for a lot of people. Like people are literally fighting for survival hood right now. It's not about these, the smaller policies that divide the Republican and democratic party. A lot of times, like it is like as a humanity, we are literally fighting for our lives. And, and, and some people have it worse than others to the point where like, Voting is like the least of their worries because they have so much that they're trying to figure out and they still got up and did it. 00:25:26 Speaker 2: And you have somebody as blessed and as. 00:25:29 Speaker 4: Powerful of a voice and as talented and as influential to us as Nicki Minaj doing this. 00:25:34 Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie. 00:25:35 Speaker 4: Like I was watching this video, Nicki Minaj. She was in New Hampshire outside of one of the polling places for us. She was out there for a second. Floyd Mayweather. 00:25:45 Speaker 2: They said Mike Tyson was there. Rob Gronkowski, all these people, right? And she's there. She's taking pictures. 00:25:51 Speaker 4: And of course, you know, people are happy to see her as Nicki Minaj. And she's been, again, a big voice on the Republican side of things leading up to the midterm election. And I was just wondering, like, you know, I wonder if there will ever be a point where she or any other celebrity who continually backed Donald Trump throughout these current times sit down and say it's not about being black, white, green or yellow, but like people were really hurting. And I was I was I was on the wrong side of history. And if that would even matter, like, you know, like if that would literally even matter. In other news, though, let's get on to the good stuff. Shout out to Keisha Lance Bottoms. Shout out to Keisha Lance Bottoms. Keisha Lance Bottoms, Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, defeated Rick Jackson. 00:26:45 Speaker 2: Last night and made history. 00:26:48 Speaker 4: She is now the first black woman ever elected governor of a U.S. 00:26:53 Speaker 2: State. 00:26:56 Speaker 4: She defeated Republican health care executive Rick Jackson with approximately 54 percent to 46 percent of the vote, securing a groundbreaking first for the entire United States. She became the first Democrat to win the governor's office in Georgia since 1998. Succeeding term limited Republican Governor Brian Kemp— And, I mean, there was

a spending deficit that she fought against. Keisha Lance Bottoms triumphed despite facing a heavily funded opponent as Rick Jackson poured over $ 200 million of his own fortune into the race. Now, we know that now-governor Keisha Lance Bottoms was Mayor Keisha of Atlanta before. from 2018 to 2022. And I remember during that time, you know, cause some of that was the pandemic time. People were just so excited to be able to say, I got a governor. I got governor, go governor, go Keisha Lansbottom. I got a mayor named Keisha. It was just so black. So us so needed, but also I Keisha Lansbottom. I've interviewed her several times at the breakfast club. I interviewed her once as well at my last job when I was at TMZ as well, too. So this was some years ago. She wasn't even in the mayor seat still. She was just working for President Biden during that time when the Biden administration was in office. But I got a chance to spend, you know, some time with her when I was down in Atlanta for Accelerate Her. I covered Accelerate Her and on my time there here on the podcast, the latest with Lauren Rose, you guys can go back. And check out that episode. But the day that I was in Accelerate Her, we were down in Florida. We were down in Miami. 00:28:35 Speaker 2: Shout out to Miss Kimberly Blackwell and everything that she does. Amazing, amazing. 00:28:40 Speaker 4: That was the day that Biden came out and endorsed Keisha Lynn's bottoms for governor in her run. And we were there. We were in the conference. It was the ending of the conference. Like the last few days, she was headed out. And I was actually headed back into the conference room. So, you know, she's walking by, heading out, you know, heading to her flight. And just in passing, because I literally just got in the alert that Biden had endorsed her. And I remember in passing, I was just like, congratulate, like, because she was like, hey, good to see you. 00:29:18 Speaker 2: Like, you know, all this stuff. And I was like, yes, safe travels. Congratulations. 00:29:22 Speaker 4: I just seen your endorsement. And she stopped for a second. She was like, isn't it crazy? And I was like, no, you. 00:29:28 Speaker 2: I mean, people love you. You've been really, really good to a lot of people. 00:29:32 Speaker 4: So, you know, what is happening in the support that you are feeling as governor is no, it's not it's not crazy at all. 00:29:39 Speaker 8: And. 00:29:40 Speaker 4: You know, I think that that says a lot about her and the humility that she has and the real commitment to the work. Like when she was mayor, you know, say whatever you want about Mayor Keisha or now Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms. She was putting her life on the line for that job. Like, you know, she was receiving death threats at one point. And I remember, you know, there were stories about her having to, like, secure her home and her family certain ways because there was things coming her way. And she decided to get back out here in these streets again for the people. And I think in a political— in the way that the world is set up right now, in the way that politics are— doing us if we don't do politics you really need people like the keisha lands bottoms of the world the governor westmore's of the world the lisa blunt rochester's delaware shout out to us of the world who actually know what's going on and like you really out here so like if people don't get what they need you feel it too you're not in this bubble and then you ascend down from your bubble and decide to be with the people and and it works because you know how to talk straight to them one of the things that I feel the Democrats have hopefully listened to, but I kind of see it, but I just hope that it lasts throughout. 00:30:48 Speaker 2: It's like, okay, now y'all are here. Now, once y'all get to work, I hope that this lasts as well too. It's like, This whole. 00:30:56 Speaker 4: Political game is like it's for everybody. 00:30:59 Speaker 2: Like it's not for just the educated. 00:31:01 Speaker 4: It's not for just the experienced, you know, people who've got some political background and who have this degree and that degree. 00:31:07 Speaker 2: The politics are for everybody. 00:31:10 Speaker 4: The everyday person, you know, the mom around the way doing whatever she got to do to figure it out. the college student who is on that full ride, the college student who comes from a family who can pay for them to go to college fully and not have to worry about a thing, the college student who is literally busting their behind, who might not even have gas to get to class, and that could be the determining factor between them and a four-year degree. Everybody in the world, no matter where they are right now, we have one thing in common. And that one thing is that we want to be able to be okay and feel okay. When you're putting the work in, and even when we are unable to put the work in, there's a whole system in place that is supposed to help and support us as we pull ourselves up from this bootstrap. People love to tell you, you know, in America, you pull yourself up from the bootstrap and, you know, you become successful and things work for you. No matter if you're able to pull yourself up or not, America and the way that it is set up and the way that our government should be caring about us here at home first, The assistance should be there. The care, the thought should be there. And when you have people like Akisha Lansbottom, you know, who, you know, a lot of the people that won, a lot of the blue that we're seeing across this map now. 00:32:26 Speaker 2: It matters. And it's not crazy that we're seeing the support that they are getting. Honestly, it's not. Oh, my God. 00:32:33 Speaker 4: Like, I'm seeing so many conversations about the black faces that were put in these seats following the midterm election night last night. I mean, you know, people still want to mend about Byron Donalds. You know, we don't... Yeah. 00:32:52 Speaker 2: But I mean, my thing that. 00:32:53 Speaker 4: What I'm saying to you guys is the people whose policy you believe in, the people whose policy you believe in because they actually understand what you are going through and even if they're not going through it themselves, they empathize in a way that, like, if you're not okay, they're not okay. 00:33:08 Speaker 2: That's where we are in this. And it's a give and take. I'm asking. 00:33:13 Speaker 4: For a lot of things, okay? And I'm not afraid to because one of the things that I want to know for a fact, I want to know that, yo, if I am trying to make sure my mom has everything she needs, my grandmother has everything she needs, I'm waking up every morning at 3, 4, 5, 6 o'clock, You know, my niece is getting older. Her parents are figuring out and working and busting their behind, trying to just provide a life for themselves. She's getting older to put where she needs the stability from everybody around her. Shoot, there's so much that is happening right now. I just want to know that all of that is going to mean something. And that's why we saw the election results we did. This has been another episode of The Latest with Lorna Rosa. I tell you guys every single episode. Y'all could be anywhere with any old body, but y'all choose to be right here with me, my lowriders. 00:34:03 Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys. I'll catch you in my next one.